Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Forgotten Brown Butter Cake with Bourbon Glaze

If this isn't a genius recipe, I don't know what it is.

I always go home, wanting to bake a cake, but not having enough time to do so. Sure, I can whip it together under 30 minutes, but waiting that 1 hour for it to bake is what makes it impossible. I simply cannot wait the 1 hour, then wait another hour for it to cool before I can cover it and keep it.

Then I had an epiphany. Oh yes, I could bake a cake at night, coming home at 8 and sleeping at 10.Why? This cake doesn't take an hour to bake and an hour to cool. It takes 8 hours to bake and cool.

What? Why so long?

Obviously so that I can sleep easy, smell cake in my dreams and wake up to a perfectly baked cake.

Do you believe it? I started this batter at 8.30pm, popped it into the oven at 9.30pm and ate cake at 5.30am. How exactly does it work?

I searched for a really long time to find a recipe that took 8 hours of baking, because that's about how long I'll sleep. But I just couldn't find one. Even the slow cooker recipes maxed out at about 4 hours. So I decided to craft my own.

I believe most of you are pretty familiar with forgotten cookies. Those cute little cookies take less than 15 minutes to prepare and just like this cake, is left in the oven overnight and is ready the next morning. With no concern of overbaking even if you over sleep!

This cake uses the same concept. Preheat your oven, put the cake in and turn it off. Then just go to bed and harvest your cake the next morning. The residual heat cooks the cake through slowly and allows it to rise high like normal cakes.

I picked a brown butter cake because I'm just addicted to the aroma of brown butter, but I'm guessing it would work with most other cake batters as well. So go ahead and try it out with chocolate cakes, white cakes, anything at all! And let me know how they turn out!